Full Liquor Bar & Dog Friendly Too!! Daily drink specials! We have live music every Monday,Thursday, Friday and Saturday Night and Karaoke on Wednesday.
Bauser the dog is long gone, but his legacy lives on. He's on the sign, the walls and behind the bar, immortalized by hand-painted murals of his awesomeness sitting behind a cold, sudsy beer with a cigar in his mouth. That must've been one cool-ass mutt! I only have a few regrets in my life, and stopping in here about a year too late to meet Bauser is definitely one of them.
The first evening we rolled in because the Pinellas Trail runs through they back parking lot. Very wisely, they built a small wooden bridge over the creek back there and put a sign that reads, "Cold water, even colder beer." And that's how we were reeled in.
The bar itself is great, and the people are even better. Everyone here is friendly as if we've been coming in for decades. We meet Frank from Ohio the first night, who told us stories about Bauser and some squirrel that found his way into the owner's pocket one day. On our second trip, we met Alex from Colombia--a fan of wooden nickles. Also a real swell fella. The list goes on and on.
Recently, the bar has been rehabbed. It is definitely a dive bar, but its recent face-lift gives one an idea of what it might have looked like 12 years ago. Also, smoking was once permitted inside, but they built a huge covered front patio, and the smokers have been relocated.
So far, this is becoming my favorite dive in Dunedin.